Revision as of 20:48, 1 May 2008

Contents

Author

Michal Ptaszek

Introduction

Asus EEE Pc

In the end of 2007 Asus in cooperation with Intel created a tiny notebook and named it EEE Pc. With its ultra-small size (7" LCD and 0.92 kg weight) it became a very powerful tool as a portable workspace.

Installing Erlang/OTP

In this tutorial I will deal with installing Erlang/OTP from prebuilt packages (it is also possible to build it from sources - but mainly because of the compiling time I've decided to skip that version).

Some initial information

Code listing 3.1: Prompt signs

$ run this command as a normal user
# run this command as a root

In order to work as a root you should type sudo before each root command or type sudo bash to work as an administrator.

After that, we are ready to install some packages which will be helpful in the future.
We will install openssl (needed for encryption support), java-jdk (for jinterface), unixODBC and some external database server (for example MySQL or PostgreSQL).
Unfortunately, prebuilt packages for Erlang/OTP have odbc support disabled - so if we want to use it - we have to compile Erlang/OTP from source. The proper tutorial is available at another TrapExit tutorial.